I tried FileBrowser on an Huawei E 5... But I do not know how to connect to it.
I tried the IP address and the web interface user name and pw but FileBrowser denies to connect. Any ideas?
Internet access works flawlessly. And I seem not to find any settings to share the SD card. Neither over web interface or windows settings and management tool.
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I tried the IP address and the web interface user name and pw but FileBrowser denies to connect. Any ideas?

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Did you have \\ in front of the IP addess (e.g. \\192.168.0.1)? With that and the user name and password I have been able to connect to SMB shares quite a few devices such as a Western Digital NAS, USB HDDs and SD cards on a DLink Storage Server and an SD card plugged into an HP wireless printer.

The important factor whether the device has any SMB shares set up for the memory media, most do.

A purpose built device that does the job is AirStash but there many others will do it too.

OPlayer will play anything you give it. iPhone compatible MP4/M4V files can use the iPhone/iPad's GPU to accelerate decoding by setting the QuickTime option to ON. When on though, and playing back a compatible file from the E585, it fails. Playing using my home web server, it works.

Safari does one of two things when playing back from the E585. If it's an MP4 compatible file, it fails and shows the PLAY button with a cross through it. With AVI/MKV (or anything else it doesn't recognise), it downloads the entire file first and then gives you the option to 'Open In...'. You can then send it to OPlayer/FileBrowser. This isn't ideal as it's not streaming, it's copying and then playing locally.

So it looks like the best option is to use OPlayer's built in webbrowser (with QT option OFF) and you can stream any file type. Just avoid HD.

You can test this using the lite version before committing to buy it. There's just an annoying advert at the top during playback.

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